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HENRI SCISSORHANDS
It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors, filling his sunset years with … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Diebenkorn, Edmond Variel, Elizabeth Murray, George Braziller, Greg Kucera, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, jack Flam, Jean Leymarie, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Josephine Baker, Laura McPhee, Lydia Delectorskaya, Michelle Leight, Miles Davis, Picasso, Riva Castleman, Robert Motherwell, Teriade
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WEIMAR: “CREOLE LOVE CALL” on the Rhine
Everyone loves to throw around the Weimar metaphor, from pundit Glenn Beck to America’s anarchist in residence Noam Chomsky, and a contingent of microphone friendly snake oil salesmen in between…Crazy or sane, left or right, the analogies of fear mongering … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Carl Schmitt, Conrad Felixmuller, Erhard Gopel, Eric D. Weitz, Ernst Junger, Franz Neumann, Frederik Taylor, Glenn Beck, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, James Fallows, James Fallows Guardian, Jankel Adler, Jeanne Mammen, John Maynard Keynes, Josephine Baker, Marcel Ronay, Martin Hutchinson, Max Beckmann, Noam Chomsky, Otto Dix, Paul Krugman, Sandy Levinson
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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE
A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Berber, Bertolt Brecht, Dave Riley, Dita Von Teese, Duke Ellington, Erich Maria Remarque, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jason Lutes, Joel Dorn, John Fuegi, Josephine Baker, Katherine Farmar, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Liza Minelli, Luigi Bazini, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Gordon, Nina Hagen, Robert J. Sternberg, Rosa Luxemburg, Sander L. Gilman, Scott J. Thompson, Shinan Govani, Solomon Asch, Stephen Lemons, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Benjamin, Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Von Eckardt
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THE FUSSY BACHELOR: “BRILLIANT CONTROL” IN THE CONTEXT OF HYSTERIA
“In his The True Value of Oppositions in Life and Art and elsewhere Mondrian argued in favour of trying to reconcile a series of binary oppositions such as good and evil through painting: generally in life we readily perceive oppositions as particular forms, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Aaron H. Esman, Aniela Jaffe, Daniel H. Caldwell, David Sylvester, Dee Reynolds, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Harry Holtzman, Harry Holzman, Helena Blavatsky, Holzman, James W. Hamilton, Josephine Baker, Justin Wintle, K. Paul Johnson, Ken Gewertz, Lee Penn, Meyer Schapiro, Phyllis Greenacre, Piet Mondrian, R.E. Kantor, Robert Hughes, Roy Goodman, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Virginia Hanson
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